I’m having fun playing through the Oracle games on Switch.
Thing is, I had bought them on 3DS, but I think I’d only bothered to play through Seasons again before getting busy with other stuff. So Ages is not so fresh in my memory.
I can recall a lot of details almost exactly, however it just doesn’t *feel* as big as it did back then. I guess sort of a similar feeling to playing Ocarina of Time again some years later, or even Mario 64. Funny how this works with some games but not others…I suppose some may lend themselves more to a sense that the adventures have the illusion of being more grand than they actually are. I think it was Twilight Princess that got me jaded towards that concept, only for the last two titles in this series to eventually amend that and deliver on that kind of promise.
Nevertheless, I think these are my favorite 2D Zelda games. Really hoping they still get the remake treatment Link’s Awakening got but who knows. I definitely think it was time to move on to a new style from the 3D games that were mostly bogged down by OoT tropes, and can’t believe whiners want to go back to that, but there’s definitely still room for 2D games like these. I like Minish Cap and all but I remember feeling it was definitely a step down in terms of tight design and mechanics. Hoping they’ll do more, maybe collaborate with Capcom again even.